Mystery Jam Monday Part 231

Monday 07/18/2016 by Dog_Faced_Boy

MYSTERY JAM MONDAY PART 231

Welcome to the 231st edition of Mystery Jam Monday! This week we continue with our Hall of Fame Series, where we welcome one of our eight, seven-time MJM winners into the MJM recording studio, and let that Emeritus winner select the tracks for this week's competition. For week 5 of this Emeritus Series, we welcome @PersnicketyJim, the fifth person forced into mandatory retirement after taking the Blog by storm with seven victories in the span of twenty-six MJMs.

To win, be the first person to identify the song and date of each of the four mystery jam clips, and answer what they share in common. Each person gets one attempt per day, with the second “day” starting after the Blog posts the hint -- each answer should contain four songs / dates, along with the commonality between them. No sharing or trading of answers is allowed. A hint will be posted on Tuesday if necessary, with the answer to follow on Wednesday. The winner will receive one MP3 code good for a free download of any show, courtesy of our friends at LivePhish.com / Nugs.Net. Good luck, and thanks again to @PersnicketyJim for hosting this fifth week of the MJM Hall of Fame Series.

Hint: There is a reason there are four clips this week.

Answer: Congratulations to @WayIFeel who recorded his seventh MJM victory by correctly identifying this week's four clips: "Say Something" from 8/30/13, a Mike Gordon penned song; "Mr. Completely" from 7/15/03, a Trey Anastasio song; "Heavy Rotation" from 7/22/15, by Page McConnell; and "Ha Ha Ha" from 2/26/97, a Jon Fishman song. The theme, also identified, was songs credited to an individual member of the band. It appeared that the blog might score a rarified victory, but in the final hour, @WayIFeel came through with the correct answers and theme. With this victory, he now retires from regular participation, and becomes only the ninth member of the Hall of Fame Club comprising all the retired seven time winners. Fortunately we will welcome @WayIFeel back in just a few weeks, when moves across the table and selects the theme and clips for week 9 of the MJM Emeritus Series. Special thanks to @PersnicketyJim for a really great MJM Emeritus theme and clips. So close. So close.... Please join us next Monday, July 25, when week 6 of the MJM Emeritus Series will launch, hosted by Emeritus Champion @mcgrupp81. Also wishing happy and safe travles to regular MJM host and Emeritus Champion number eight, @ucpete. See you all next week!

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22 comments - Link: http://phi.sh/b/578c33c9

Comments

2016-07-18 2:08 pm, comment by tensionland

No clue but that 2nd jam with the semi still waiting tease sounds like a keeper

Score: 2

2016-07-18 2:57 pm, comment by officercookies

I swear I've heard at least 2 of these.
If only I had any idea of where to go from here.....

Score: 1

2016-07-18 10:33 pm, comment by GottaJibboo

Wow, fantastic selection

Score: 1

2016-07-19 12:05 am, comment by FirstTubeCT

Still waiting...

Score: 0

2016-07-19 1:08 am, comment by Phart_Door

Second one is pretty easy. But that means nothing, since I can't figure out the other three.

Score: 0

2016-07-19 1:09 am, comment by runlikecarini

all seem like tweezers to me but im a rookie

Score: 0

2016-07-19 12:25 pm, comment by Piper72

I say two Tweezers, a Sand (or Halley's), and a YEM. 94-99. Otherwise, I got nuthin'.

Score: 0

2016-07-19 12:55 pm, comment by bushwood_a_dump

Yes, great selection. the hint gives me two theories, but both are quite time intensive to test!

Score: 2

2016-07-19 1:38 pm, comment by PhunkyMonkey

Pretty sure I've got the theme and definitely one of the clips. If I'm right, that's a huge amount of songs to go through!

Score: 2

2016-07-19 4:46 pm, comment by Phart_Door

Yeah, I think I got the hint as well, or at least what it relates to.

Score: 0

2016-07-19 5:13 pm, comment by JesusFreak

2 of these were eazy peezy...now the adventure begins!

Score: 0

2016-07-19 5:35 pm, comment by WayIFeel

@JesusFreak said:

2 of these were eazy peezy...now the adventure begins!

I got two in a matter of minutes and then ran into a brick wall ever since.

Score: 1

2016-07-19 5:50 pm, comment by PersnicketyJim

Let me just say that it is fascinating being on the other side of the contest. That anyone recognized any of the clips shouldn't shock me, but it does. Part of me wants someone to figure it out; part of me wants that blog win.

Score: 1

2016-07-19 6:25 pm, comment by Piper72

@PersnicketyJim said:

Let me just say that it is fascinating being on the other side of the contest. That anyone recognized any of the clips shouldn't shock me, but it does. Part of me wants someone to figure it out; part of me wants that blog win.

You sure picked a stumper! Well done.

Score: 0

2016-07-19 8:09 pm, comment by JesusFreak

@WayIFeel said:

@JesusFreak said:
2 of these were eazy peezy...now the adventure begins!

I got two in a matter of minutes and then ran into a brick wall ever since.

Same here. There is simply not enough time in the day to get this thing completely figured out. I have to say that I am honestly kinda sad that I have come so close this time but still am not going to get it.

Score: 0

2016-07-20 12:00 pm, comment by WayIFeel

(Gordon) Say Something 8/30/13
(Anastasio) Mr. Completely 7/15/03
(Page) Heavy Rotation 7/22/15
(Fish) Ha Ha Ha 2/26/97

Each clips lyrics are credited to an individual band member.

Score: 6

2016-07-20 12:07 pm, comment by PersnicketyJim

@WayIFeel said:

(Gordon) Say Something 8/30/13
(Anastasio) Mr. Completely 7/15/03
(Page) Heavy Rotation 7/22/15
(Fish) Ha Ha Ha 2/26/97

Each clips lyrics are credited to an individual band member.

You did it! Welcome to Emeritus-hood!

Score: 1

2016-07-20 12:20 pm, comment by WayIFeel

@PersnicketyJim said:

@WayIFeel said:
(Gordon) Say Something 8/30/13
(Anastasio) Mr. Completely 7/15/03
(Page) Heavy Rotation 7/22/15
(Fish) Ha Ha Ha 2/26/97

Each clips lyrics are credited to an individual band member.
You did it! Welcome to Emeritus-hood!

Thanks!!!

Once I figured out the hint I got the Page tune within minutes but that Gordon song wasn't' easy. I definitely skimmed through that song at one point yesterday but missed it.

FYI, I knew the Ha Ha Ha on the first note. I've had a sbd tape of that show since the late 90's and recently got the digital copy. Easily best version ever. I'm still waiting for them to drop another Ha Ha Ha like that one.

Score: 0

2016-07-20 12:52 pm, comment by PersnicketyJim

@WayIFeel: Ironically, I started this exercise with that Say Something clip. In my favor was the fact that under "Song Histories" above, Phish is listed as the original artist (perhaps because even though it was written by Gordon/Murawski, it was first played by Phish).

Score: 0

2016-07-20 12:52 pm, comment by PersnicketyJim

@uctweezer deserves credit for suggesting the Heavy Rotation clip. Page songs have seldom been jammed, and I perused this version early on but skipped over the precious few seconds that it nearly went type II. (I had originally proposed this Squirming Coil clip, which is arguably mislabeled on-line, but ultimately that's a Trey song and that would have been a dirty trick.)

Again, I shouldn't be surprised that .netters recognized Mr. Completely and Ha Ha Ha, but I certainly hadn't heard them before this. I also like that none of these songs have appeared in a previous MJM. I wanted to help the blog win, but it's cool see someone get it, and to retire another player!

Score: 0

2016-07-20 3:42 pm, comment by Piper72

Wow...can't believe how off I was. The clips sounded like audience B quality and less so they sounded older to me. And I guess I shouldn't automatically think "Gee, this jam's in A and midtempo, it must be a Tweezer". Fail. And I was just listening to that Mr. Completely a couple days ago.

Well done.

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2016-07-20 5:46 pm, comment by JesusFreak

@PersnicketyJim said:

@uctweezer deserves credit for suggesting the Heavy Rotation clip. Page songs have seldom been jammed, and I perused this version early on but skipped over the precious few seconds that it nearly went type II. (I had originally proposed this Squirming Coil clip, which is arguably mislabeled on-line, but ultimately that's a Trey song and that would have been a dirty trick.)

Again, I shouldn't be surprised that .netters recognized Mr. Completely and Ha Ha Ha, but I certainly hadn't heard them before this. I also like that none of these songs have appeared in a previous MJM. I wanted to help the blog win, but it's cool see someone get it, and to retire another player!

For me, it was actually the Mr. Completely and the Heavy Rotation that I recognized right away. I attended the Bend shows last year. It was the Mike tune and the Fish tune that I couldn't quite figure out. I have never listened to 2/26/97, regrettably. I will have to put that show on my must listen list now.